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title: According to Russia's Federal Migration Service, Moscow holds 1.8 mi… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: According to Russia's Federal Migration Service, Moscow holds 1.8 million official "guests" who have temporary residency on the basis of visas or other documentation, giving a legal population of 14.8 million. Who acts: Moscow, million official guests, Russia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with
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# Moscow, sentence 261

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From Wikipedia, [«Moscow»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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According to Russia's Federal Migration Service, Moscow holds 1.8 million official "guests" who have temporary residency on the basis of visas or other documentation, giving a legal population of 14.8 million.

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**Who acts:** Moscow, million official guests, Russia · **What happens:** accord, hold, have, give, service · **To what, where:** Federal Migration Service, million official guests, temporary residency, basis, legal population

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moscow». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moscow, million official guests, Russia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Moscow:261
# text = According to Russia's Federal Migration Service, Moscow holds 1.8 million official "guests" who have temporary residency on the basis of visas or other documentation, giving a legal population of 14.8 million.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	1.8	1.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	residency	residency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	visas	visa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	documentation	documentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	14.8	14.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	compound	_	_
36	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund | Moscow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Russia's Federal Migration Service *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to service=Goal |
| 2 | **hold** | present | Moscow | million official guests |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | million official guests | temporary residency |  | the basis of visas or other documentation |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residency=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | Moscow *not said here* | a legal population of 14.8 million |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Theme |
| 5 | **service** |  | Russia |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Moscow», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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